Comments on: Global Warming

By: Steven J. Kelso Sr.

Steven J. Kelso Sr. — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 14:00:37 +0000

Me and science are homeboys, but please drop the scientist as prophet spiel. Life is complicated — slow down and let science do it's job.

The sky is not falling!

Will it rain tomorrow?

By: The other Deb

The other Deb — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 01:12:51 +0000

Batman- someone else was waiting for the bat signal, but I have enjoyed the ensuing mobilization. I'll just be glad when we have leaves on our trees, not to be flip about the Inuits.

By: mencken

mencken — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 23:13:27 +0000

Yeah Reagan said trees pollute and ketchup was a vegetable.

There's a joke there somewhere.

For the record, although at times trees do emit certain

photochemicals, they ABSORB C02 and RESPIRE oxygen.

There's a net gain in there, trust me.

A metric ton equals 2204.6 pounds. Nobody should say Chip's

blog isn't educational.

By: Chip

Chip — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 22:46:03 +0000

Well, Batman, I think the ice rink speaks for itself. For that matter so do the martinis. As for 165 billion metric tons of greenhouse gas running loose in the world, Mencken, I have no idea what that means. It sounds like a big number to me but in terms of the federal budget it's puny. If greenhouse gas means co2 I guess it means a lot more trees. Since the Reagan era, of course, we all know they pollute. I guess we are doomed.

By: I'm Batman

I'm Batman — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 20:22:06 +0000

Chip- I enjoyed your erstwhile scientific contribution to this discussion immensely. I recall a related conversation we had around your ice rink a few winters ago. I chalked up our inability to agree on things ecological to the many martinis we had consumed. Guess that may not have been the case. Doesn't matter, I still love ya buddy. By the way, Mastodons were around for about two million years, a pretty decent record of longevity. The way we're going, the modern hominid (that's us) won't even come close to matching it.

By: mencken

mencken — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 18:33:35 +0000

Chip, that study you cite on Antartica was funded partly by the

fossil fuel companies. Your point that Ohio was once covered by a glacier is worth noting but I think Batman covered that point very well as far as the time frame.

"Scientists in the global warming debate are chasing federal global warming dollars." Chip,show me a research scientist anywhere that does not chase federal dollars. Please.

I think if you check you'll find there are far more "research' dollars being spent by industry in hopes of disproving global warming than not. Look, between 1997 and 2003, 165 billion metric tons of greenhouse gas was released in the world. Your opinion would be that figure is inconsequential?

By: chip

chip — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 18:04:10 +0000

It's hard to get an accurate reading of your kid's fever, depending on where you stick the thermometer. I have to believe it's really hard to get an accurate average reading for the whole earth over a long period of time. Antarctica, for example, is supposedly actually cooling on average even though huge sheets of ice have disappeared.

Mencken drags in the tobacco companies. In that debate scientists on tobacco payrolls were discredited. Scientists in the global warming debate are chasing federal global warming dollars. That doesn't mean they're wrong but I think it's worth a little skepticism. (By the way, doesn't less smoking mean fewer global warming emissions?)

Even if the earth is warming it's hard to prove man caused it.

The thing that makes me most skeptical is that the very ground I'm sitting on in NE Ohio was covered by a glacier. It melted long before there were any man made emissions, beyond the occasional mastodon roast. Come to think of it, Batman, that species didn't evolve a very adequate natural reponse.

By: none other

none other — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 16:50:31 +0000

It must be those un-documented bean eaters taking not only our jobs but our clean air also.

By: mencken

mencken — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 16:36:20 +0000

Not sure what your point is Mr. Kelso.

By: Steven J. Kelso Sr.

Steven J. Kelso Sr. — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 15:38:22 +0000

Mencken has spoken; yet I still dissent. Which way to the Gulag comrade?